Nope. A pot with a hole in the bottom is a plant pot.
I had a ceramics teacher, once, who said that if she made a ceramic statue of a cat, she could sell it for several hundred dollars. But if she modified it into a cookie jar, it would sell for fifty bucks, tops.
No, he painted it for money.
He also hid a giant “Fuck You” to Catholic doctrine in it, the very opposite of “giving life to the Bible”.
So it is art - rebel art.
I think you’d find that difficult to justify. Michelangelo included humanist elements, but there was a strong thread of humanism within the Catholic church long before Michelangelo’s time. Several popes were humanists or sympathetic to humanism.
He hid a giant brain as God. That’s a little beyond “humanist elements”, and hardly Catholic dogma.
God isn’t supposed to be smart?
(I know what you’re going for, I think - that he meant that God was the creation of the human mind, or that religion should be approached rationally, or that the mind contains a spark of the divine. They’re all valid theories, IMHO)
We’re getting a bit off topic here, so I don’t want to get into a big discussion on this thread. But I don’t see how that is in conflict with Catholic belief, since man is said to be made in the image of God.
Suk and Tamargo, who wrote the paper pointing out the brain imagery in the Separation of Light from Darkness panel, wrote another paper arguing that the reason he did it was to incorporate Neoplatonic symbolism. Neoplatonism was a major influence on the Catholic Church from Augustine onwards, through the medieval period, and into the Renaissance.
I very carefully said “doctrine” & “dogma”, not “influence”. But you’re right that this is getting hijack-ish.